Its been a while...

Well, it has been a while since my last post.  We submitted our first dossier and have been registered with the Ukraine to be adoptive parents!  We got our 2nd Dossier submittal date.  It is Feb 10th of next year.  It is later than we were hoping for (we missed the Nov submittal by a few days).  In the Ukraine, most government goes on holiday through Dec and Jan, so an early Feb submittal date puts us at the beginning of the new year of adoptions.  Once we submit, we should travel about a month later! 

I began taking Russian classes a few weeks ago.  I can now read the alphabet and know some basic words and phrases.  It is a complicated but wonderful language!  It is much more efficient than English in many ways.  Hopefully studying Russian will help us to pass the time.  We cannot start on our 2nd dossier yet because the documents would expire by the time we were to travel.  So, we are in a waiting game right now.

Besides studying Russian, Abbie is keeping us busy with her dance, getting ready to go to camp, and her swimming.  Its nice to enjoy some great family time while we wait!